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aburka

@aburka@hachyderm.io

Engineer (robotics, embedded), contra dancer, nerd

Black lives matter | Trans rights are human rights | VOTE

I toot/boost stuff about robots, space, science{, fiction}, programming, US pol, etc. Also puns/memes. (Most deleted after 2 years.)

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:arch_linux: :rust: :cxx: :vim: :blobfoxcomputer: :blobfoxastronout: ๐Ÿ˜ท๐Ÿ’‰
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aburka, to random
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Hot take: if I can say "they just tested positive" and you don't have to ask "for what?" then the pandemic isn't over.

memory, to random
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If they get Voyager 1 working again, this will go down in history as the absolute pinnacle of the art of debugging. You think your codebase and kubernetes cluster is hard to deal with? Motherfucker try doing this with a delay of light-hours.

If thereโ€™s an award for this it should be in the shape of Margaret Hamilton standing next to a pile of printouts taller than her. https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112091847867604195

aburka,
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@memory NASA: debugging a half century old mostly undocumented computer from 2 lightdays away with next to no output

Me: idk what's wrong I'm gonna need a screwdriver to open it up and short the reset pins again

hrefna, to random
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Everything being asked here is incredibly straightforward, polished to look impressive. It is impressive by the standards of other tools in this space, but that's because those tools are pathetic

They pointed it at a set of ~574 problems in a benchmark (out of 2,294) and it solved ~80 of them.

What's interesting looking at "Devin" is what's not shown.

Take a close look at the problems they are illustrating in their demos, the length of the videos, and what they show
https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/112086778379338138

aburka,
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@hrefna @jenniferplusplus did this project consent to being used as a testing ground for garbage PRs containing code that doesn't do anything, or is it another casualty like Ghost?

65dBnoise, (edited ) to space
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Analyzing software failures, the way:

Software Error Incident categorizations in Aerospace
PDF: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230012154/downloads/8-17-23%2020230012154.pdf

By Lorraine E. Prokop/NESC
Langley Research Center

aburka,
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@65dBnoise

cstross, to random
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Oops! The FAA conducted an audit of the Boeing 737MAX production process. 89 product audits were carried out; Boeing and Spirit Aerosystems (the subcontractor). Boeing passed 56, but failed 33 with 97 instances of alleged noncompliance. Spirit passed 6 audits but failed 7.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/us/politics/faa-audit-boeing-737-max.html

aburka,
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@cstross it feels a bit extreme to filter for Airbus planes for my upcoming cross-country trip, but it's seeming more rational every day

molly0xfff, to random

I suspect Tom McKay didn't know how right he was when he wrote in Gizmodo in December 2021:

https://gizmodo.com/kickstarter-is-putting-kickstarter-on-the-blockchain-1848187305

aburka,
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@molly0xfff seems more like the VCs wave money around as a spell to get people to use blockchain

dgar, to random
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aburka,
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@dgar

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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poll: did you know that in a git merge conflict, the order of the code is different when you do a merge/rebase?

merge:

<<<<<<< HEAD
YOUR CODE

OTHER BRANCH'S CODE
>>>>>>> c694cf8aabe

rebase:

<<<<<<< HEAD
OTHER BRANCH'S CODE

YOUR CODE
>>>>>>> d945752 (your commit message)

(where "YOUR CODE" is the code from the branch you were on when you ran git merge or git rebase)

aburka,
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@b0rk is this the same issue as having the meaning of "theirs" and "ours" reversed for merge vs rebase?

dgar, (edited ) to random
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Long night so far.

A call from my sister just after midnight that sheโ€™d taken mum to the hospital.

Been holding bedside vigil while sister goes home and gets some sleep. Doctors running tests and whatnot. Morphine for the pain. Machines that go โ€œbingโ€.

Itโ€™s about 4:30am and mumโ€™s snoring with a plethora of tubes and wires.

Eyes are heavy. Chair is uncomfortable. The nurses showed me where I could make a cup of coffee for myself.

aburka,
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@dgar :heart_cyber: :heart_cyber:

sara, to random

With so much lost the last ~15 years on the topic of website making Iโ€™ve seriously been considering making a book or a blog or something. Some of this still exists itโ€™s just hard to find, but SO much is just gone, or outdated, or wrong now. MDN has on more than one occasion changed actual historical facts. And the bootcamps and acceleration programs have erased so many fundamentals in an effort to javascriptify and build-chain everything.

To build the future, we also need to remember.

aburka,
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@sara Just went to look up the place I learned (ca. 2000), seems it was taken down last year for some reason :( https://web.archive.org/web/20230714162026/https://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/

hrefna, to random
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I get why people want to use codeberg over github, AND it just isn't there from a feature parity or usability perspective -.-

aburka,
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@hrefna well, github keeps making their interface worse so it might get there

aburka, (edited )
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@hrefna cries 55% faster using github copilot

aburka, to random
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running is the fastest way to deliver scissors to your friends and family

aburka, to random
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is voting on two membership applications.

First is (odd to call an "application" because it was already rushed into the foundation before leadership realized how much dissent there was to being associated with AI bullshit). So I know how I'm voting on that one.

The other one is , a (hostile?) fork of Tusky by the developer who loudly quit and accused them of financial mismanagement. As I recall, that turned out to be overblown. Anyone have useful opinions on this one?

aburka,
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@hrefna it just seems a bit off to me how the application is full of grandiose ideas about governance, and calls out that too many fedi apps are single dev teams, yet it is currently... a single dev team, as far as I can tell

aburka,
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@hrefna do you know if there's any documentation on what we mean by "incubated" projects? Are they different from Project Members for governance purposes, etc? This is the first I'm hearing of it.

skrishna, to space
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Reminder: As we start getting closer to the April eclipse, places are going to start selling out of eclipse glasses (some already have!) I highly recommend you order some soon, and please donโ€™t just get them off eBay or Amazon, fakes are a problem.

These are good:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1284713-REG/celestron_44405_eclipsmart_solar_shades_observing.html/?ap=y&ap=y&smp=y&smp=y&lsft=BI%3A514&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA84CvBhCaARIsAMkAvkLsYaX9lrI_rYJsivpbg-D5VRObC5oN4zorhM6IIVFTbLDVY4ZxgBgaAsRcEALw_wcB

aburka,
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@skrishna I can just use the same ones I have from 2017, right?

vyr, to random
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the year is 2025. a thousand Misskey forks have bloomed, withered, and died. Mastodon has been nationalized by the European Union as a matter of state security. Website Boy is in hiding. Fedi is used primarily to talk shit about Bluesky, Cohost (which has been shuttered for a year and a half due to an unfortunate interaction between the "tipping" feature and the "CSS crimes" feature), and Tumblr (a division of Raytheon).

aburka,
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@vyr a division of RTX* (I guess the name was tainted? or they wanted in on the naming-shitty-companies-"X" trend?) https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2023/06/20/raytheon-rebrands-as-rtx/

b0rk, to random
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detached HEAD state

aburka,
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@b0rk do you have a page that goes into more detail on remote tracking branches? That's the most confusing one to me, it's a branch but... it also isn't

foone, to random
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ugh. you stop using the old method of compiling a program for seven months while you work on rewriting it like 5 times, and now you forget how to compile it properly!

it's almost like depending on a compiler from 1992 was a mistake

aburka,
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@foone what even is the use of a phone without a floppy drive?

RickiTarr, to random
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Why does this look like a modern-day picture made to look old?

aburka,
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@RickiTarr I had to zoom in to understand how the baby had such a big hand

aburka, to random
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What in the Unicode is going on here @phanpy @cheeaun ๐Ÿ˜…

molly0xfff, to random

http://indieweb.org is a terrible influence

aburka,
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@molly0xfff

inquiline, to ukteachers
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โ€œThe proof in the pudding is how many people have exhausted their leave and are asking to take days off that are unpaidโ€

โ€œExhaustion is hitting them,โ€

"โ€œItโ€™s easier just to go in, push through it,โ€ said Tracey Bolton, a second-grade teacher in the Houston area, who said she reluctantly missed school in November with an extreme case of congestion and fatigue."

๐Ÿค”

๐ŸŽ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/19/us/teacher-absences-substitute-shortage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Wk0.TdSE.GNnNCSz7QgOI&smid=url-share

aburka,
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@inquiline Yeah it's gotta be "exhaustion" and not repeated covid infections, caused by forcing everyone back into the building with no masks or ventilation, that progressively erode our body's defenses. Nah, that couldn't be it. Better not mention anything close to that in the article at all.

aburka,
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@ahimsa_pdx @inquiline I think it may be a quote from a teacher with long covid, but doesn't know it / didn't admit it :(

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